Tag: film review
In Paper City, Japanese survivors recount their experiences of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo
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Review: Paper City, directed by Adrian Francis
In his first feature-length documentary, Adelaide-born director Adrian Francis offers a rigorous understanding of the...
Nude Tuesday has a sex therapy retreat, an egotistical guru, a script in gibberish – and two very different translations
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Review: Nude Tuesday, directed by Armağan Ballantyne
Nude Tuesday is a tale of two films – two subtitle tracks, anyway.
Directed by Armağan Ballantyne and...
The Beatles: Get Back review – Peter Jackson’s TV series is a thrilling, funny (and long) treat for fans
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The Beatles’ Get Back project, undertaken in January 1969, has finally been completed. Again.
For most of the last...
Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon
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Squid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two weeks the series...
Bring out the popcorn: the best films set to roar into cinemas in the second half of 2021
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For cinephiles, one of the greatest blows of the initial COVID lockdown was the closure of cinemas. While we all quickly shifted...
We asked two experts to watch The Father and Supernova. These new films show the fear and loss that come with dementia
Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) IMDB
Two new films explore the fear of forgetting, loss of control, and other complexities that...